Drainage work to close Leonidas Street at South Claiborne Avenue for 3 months

For three months starting Monday, the riverside intersection of South Claiborne Avenue and Leonidas Street will be closed to vehicular traffic. The closure will facilitate the first phase of construction to expand underground drainage capacity beneath South Claiborne Avenue between the Monticello Canal and Leonidas Street.

Ellis Lucia, The Times-Picayune archiveThe project involves removing and replacing a 43-inch water main to allow for construction of a new concrete canal box.

The project involves removing and replacing a 43-inch water main to allow for construction of a new concrete canal box. It's the first step in a $427 million effort to build almost six miles of new underground drainage canals Uptown.

The work includes building concrete canals under South Claiborne Avenue between Monticello Avenue and Leonidas Street; under Napoleon Avenue between South Claiborne Avenue and Carondelet Street; and along Louisiana and Jefferson avenues and Prytania Street